Realising the first reconfigurable photonic metamaterials for the optical part of the spectrum – devices harnessing elastic, electrostatic, magnetic and even optical forces on the nanoscale to deliver dynamically controllable optical functionalities on demand.

Fabricating optical fibre probes to interrogate and even amplify the evanescent field of free-flying electrons and new superconducting metamaterial technologies for modulating and detecting sub-terahertz radiation.